bpv_248023 - CARIA - CARIAN ISLANDS - RHODES Assarion

CARIA - CARIAN ISLANDS - RHODES Assarion AU

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Price : 145.00 €

Type : Assarion

Date: c. 69-138

Mint name / Town : Carie Rhodes

Metal : copper

Diameter : 19 mm

Orientation dies : 6 h.

Weight : 2,35 g.

Rarity : R1

Coments on the condition:

Exemplaire sur un petit flan quadrangulaire, ovale et irrégulier. Beaux portraits. Jolie patine vert d’eau

Catalogue references :

BMC.409 - Aulock2858 - RPC.1189 pl. 55

Predigree :

Cet exemplaire provient de Monnaies et Médailles Bâle et de M&M Deutschland et de la vente électronique CNG 214, n° 311. Cet exemplaire provient de la collection Jean-Pierre Righetti (n° 473)

Obverse

Obverse description : Buste radié et drapé d’Hélios à droite ; devant une étoile à huit rais.

Reverse

Reverse description : Buste drapé de Sérapis à droite, coiffé du calathos.

Reverse legend : RODI-WN, (Rodion).

Reverse translation : (de Rhodes).

Historical background

CARIA - CARIAN ISLANDS - RHODES

(1st century AD)

After the Peace of Apamea in 188 BC, Rhodes regained its independence. The island experienced twenty years of prosperity until the Romans proclaimed Delos a free port in 167 BC after the defeat of Perseus, king of Macedonia. The Rhodian fleet had supported the Macedonian king. Rhodian trade declined after this date. In 88 BC after the massacre of 80,000 Romans and Italians in Asia Minor, Mithridates VI, king of Pontus besieged Rhodes, without success. Rhodes remained important during the Roman period, but never regained the role it played in the Hellenistic period.